Math: Students will continue to
develop their conceptual understanding of the relationships between the numbers
1-10. Students will practice and develop
an understanding of how to compose and decompose numbers 0 – 120 using concrete and pictorial representations. Students will
count up and back between 1 and 120. Students
will continue to develop their ability to conceptualize a number as being made
up of two or more parts and their understanding of the part-part-whole model
and related number relationships. They will also continue to explore, in this
unit and throughout the year, a variety of addition/subtraction problem
situations including joining, separating, part-part-whole, and comparing, with
different unknowns: result/change/start, or part/whole or difference, in order
to develop an understanding of the operations of addition and subtraction. Sums
and differences are limited to 20. Students will generate a problem solving
situation from a given number sentence and use concrete and pictorial models to
solve problems using addition and subtraction with whole numbers to 20.
Reading Workshop:
This week in reading workshop we
will continue reading and studying nonfiction/expository texts. This
week our focus will be on reading nonfiction books about spiders and using our
reading time to research and learn facts that we don’t already know about them. This
unit will extend into writing workshop too. We will also spend some time on comparing and contrasting
fiction vs. nonfiction books on spiders. This is fun unit and the kids always have fun researching
with this unit! J Be
sure to ask your child what they learned this week about spiders!
Word Study:
Green group: Beginning consonant sounds v, y, z
Blue group: Short o vowel sound in op, ot, og word families (hop, hot, hog)
Red group: Short u vs. Long u in CVCe (shut, drum, cute, tube)
Writing
Workshop: During
the next several weeks in Writer’s Workshop, we will be learning how to write
expository texts to communicate ideas and information that we are
learning. Our learning this week will
focus on bats and begin with KWL charts in which we will write down facts that
we already “know”; then write down questions that we “want to know”; and
conclude with an informative writing that communicates what we have learned
about bats. Please be watching for our work to begin filling the halls this
week as our new unit of study unfolds.
Social Studies: This week, we will be learning about Freedom,
Liberty, and various United States symbols.
We will read and write facts about the Liberty Bell, the United States
Flag, and our National Anthem.
Habit #4:
Think Win-Win When learning
about this habit, we will learn how we can balance the courage of getting what
we want with the consideration of others want.
Reminders:
*Please remember to
send a healthy snack every day. Snack time is @
9:30am.
*Make sure your child
wears tennis shoes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
*Library day is
Tuesday.
*Please remember to
send back your child’s orange folder and homework bag every day.
Dates to remember:
October 14: Student Holiday
October 18: Hoot Family Picnic
October 30: Early Release Day
November 2: Harvest Festival
November 13: Family Skate Night
November 27-29: Thanksgiving Holidays
December 4: Early Release Day
December 5: Family Art Night
December 9-13: Book Fair
December 23: Winter Break Begins
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